Manoj Madame Source: Migrant workers and their families walking home during the first lockdown. (PTI 2020) Covid-19 and Caste stigma: From Bahujan Women’s Standpoint The entire world has been suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic since the virus broke out in China in October 2019. And most health professionals have suggested maintaining social distance and physical …
Chhatrapati Shahu’s Crusade against Untouchability – 2
B. D. Khane Maharaja was a champion of social justice and equal opportunities for all. He believed in protecting the weak against the strong. The aim of his measures was to raise the lower castes from their abject position in society by employing them and fitting them for hitherto closed avenues of life. For …
Nomads are humans too
Dr. Narayan Bhosale People from nomadic communities did not understand the precise meaning of this lockdown during the period of pandemic. If they did, it was already late; if it wasn’t too late, then they were frustrated due to the helpless state it put them in. Nomadic communities have been stranded on the streets …
Reservation based on economic status will annihilate social justice: Dr. Thol. Thirumavalavan
Suresh RV This discussion was held on 3.5.2019, before Respected Dr. Thol. Thirumavalavan was elected Member of the Parliament. We express our sincere thanks to him for giving us this opportunity and our best wishes for his victory in the elections. The discussion was based on the topic of 10% reservations given to the …
பொருளாதார அடிப்படையிலான இடஒதுக்கீடு சமூக நீதியை அழித்தொழித்து விடும் – முனைவர். தொல். திருமாவளவன்
Suresh R V பொருளாதாரத்தில் நலிந்த உயர்சாதியினருக்கு வழங்கப்படும் 10 சதவிகிதம் இடஒதுக்கீடு குறித்து முனைவர். தொல். திருமாவளவன், எம்.பி அவர்களுடனான ஒரு உரையாடல். இந்த உரையாடல் 3.5.2019 அன்று நிகழ்ந்தது., அதாவது, மதிப்பிற்குரிய முனைவர்.தொல் திருமாவளவன் அவர்கள் எம்.பி. ஆக தேர்தலில் வெற்றிப்பெறுவதற்கு முன்பாக நடந்தது. எங்களுக்கு இந்த வாய்ப்பினை தந்ததற்கு நன்றிகளையும், தேர்தலில் வெற்றிப்பெற்றதற்கு எங்களது வாழ்த்துகளையும் நாங்கள் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறோம்.
Understanding the rationale of affirmative action in India
Sudhanshu K. Singh The Jat-Patel agitation and the anti-reservation protests of the 1990s are of the same pattern of angst against the grotesquely wrong conception of injustice that is attributed to Affirmative Action made possible through the Reservation policy. In a modern egalitarian political economy, one of the primary aims of the State should be …
Jobseekers on 23rd Day of Hunger Strike Ignored by Bengal Govt
Deep Mondal Plea for Support The following plea was made by the protestors fighting for job appointments that they had earned in the Bengal government after successfully qualifying in the selection process of the Bengal State Serveice Commission (please read From Chuni Kotal to Ruma Das: The price of Bengal’s casteist education system for …
Dalit and Adivasi Women Warriors Question Caste and Gender Oppression
Sujatha Surepally (Impressions from the first National Dalit and Adivasi Women’s Congress held on February 15-16, 2013, at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) We live in nature! We die in Nature! It’s our life, if you occupy our land where should we go and how do we live? Whose land is this? The …
Campaign for Reservation, Social Justice, and Democracy
Alliance For Social Justice & Students For Social Justice In a society divided along religious, caste, linguistic, and regional lines, the most efficient way for a dominant segment to perpetuate its hegemony is to keep the subaltern from getting educated. History as well as mythology illustrates this, as seen in the stories of Shambook, Ekalavya, …